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I haven't read any of the LNs at all, and from what I heard the Anime has been going in a chronological order. So far in the Anime it's been almost two years since the start of the death game, and it hasn't cover that much regarding on what has happened so far. So, do the LNs actually cover what the Anime didn't cover at all regarding side-stories or major plot stories that have occurred in the past two years? I know the Anime has left out certain details in the stories we've seen so far, I'm asking if the Anime has left out certain side stories or main plot stories.

I just feel like I need to know what happened in every month and that maybe the LN covers a couple of things every month in the past two years.

The anime has covered most of the L/N material, save for a side story or two (the only one that comes to mind happened near the beginning of SAO).

Well, actually, the 2 year time skip occurs near the very beginning of the SAO L/Ns. So no, there's no month by month coverage; that'd take years to write. However, the author is currently writing Sword Art Online: Progressive, which is basically a re-write of this, and it's main purpose to fix plot holes and inconsistencies, and maybe make the overall story more fluidic.

I don't know if this has been asked before, and I don't have the time to read this entire thread for an answer.

I haven't read any of the LNs at all, and from what I heard the Anime has been going in a chronological order. So far in the Anime it's been almost two years since the start of the death game, and it hasn't cover that much regarding on what has happened so far. So, do the LNs actually cover what the Anime didn't cover at all regarding side-stories or major plot stories that have occurred in the past two years? I know the Anime has left out certain details in the stories we've seen so far, I'm asking if the Anime has left out certain side stories or main plot stories.

I just feel like I need to know what happened in every month and that maybe the LN covers a couple of things every month in the past two years.

The LN has a two year time jump immediately after they get trapped. It basically skips directly from episode 1 to episode 8. All the stuff that happens in those two years is side story and not main story. The anime adapted almost all of the stories that have been told about it. So you're not missing anything.

For some time, I thought there was. I mean, A and O are quite far away from each other on the keyboard. Sure, once or twice is forgivable, but after somebody writes SOA instead of SAO for the 10th time in a row, one really begins to wonder if that's all there is to it..

Also, at Mother's Rosario, why did Kirito said that if AS was from SAO, she was the one who would've obtained Dual Wield? Is there some kind of requirement or a hidden challenge to acquire a unique skill in SAO?

Also, at Mother's Rosario, why did Kirito said that if AS was from SAO, she was the one who would've obtained Dual Wield? Is there some kind of requirement or a hidden challenge to acquire a unique skill in SAO?

Spoiler for Answer:

It was based off reaction time of the player. Which she had more as she basically lived in the virtual world for a much longer time.

It was based off reaction time of the player. Which she had more as she basically lived in the virtual world for a much longer time.

Spoiler:

No, it has nothing to do with length of time, or else everyone else from SAO would be Kirito-level. It's an innate talent of the players themselves. She also has lots of experience, but that has nothing to do with reaction time.

So in the 2 years that they are caged in SAO, do you think their appearance/features [height, face, weight] changed over the course of those years? I mean, they were only given a single mirror at the beginning of the game.

So in the 2 years that they are caged in SAO, do you think their appearance/features [height, face, weight] changed over the course of those years? I mean, they were only given a single mirror at the beginning of the game.

Ingame it didn't change. The first time they used the nerve gear it copied there real appearance.